Duncan Jones’ MUTE Brings on Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard

With the Warcraft hype-train beginning to move full-steam ahead, another interesting bit of news surrounding director Duncan Jones has surfaced today, with the announcement that Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard have joined his long-gestating science fiction project Mute.

In addition to the announcement of Rudd and Skarsgard, it was also confirmed that the film will take place in the same universe as Duncan’s previous film, Moon, and feature Sam Rockwell reprising his role from that brilliant little sci-fi indie.

Mute is still currently being shopped around, so production is undoubtedly a ways off, but there is a synopsis available, which you can check out below.

Berlin.  Forty years from today.  A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca.  Leo Beiler (Skarsgard), a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared.  But when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Rudd) seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.